A Wonderful Start

Liao Ji had imagined many possibilities for his "second playthrough."

But he never imagined it would turn into a real-life version of the game Falling OL.

And that he would, for heaven's sake, be born inside a coffin?

Even after he kicked it a few times and finally managed to "rise from the dead," he had to come face-to-face with a group of people who were clearly there to "rob" his grave, staring at each other in awkward silence?

Could there be any transmigration more ridiculous than this!!

And there was more.

It was that after a moment of deathly silence.

These shameless grave robbers actually started to turn the tables, each of them looking terrified as they pointed their guns at him, the man who had just emerged from the stone coffin.

Liao Ji was not born in the United States.

Therefore, he didn't have such extensive experience with gunfights; he only felt his hair stand on end, and his heart seemed to skip a beat.

At this moment, Liao Ji truly understood the "friendly reminder" from the system when he started his second playthrough.

No saving, no reloading.

Damn it!

So that's what it meant!

Fortunately.

"Put them down, put them all down!" Seeing his underlings aiming their guns at Liao Ji, Jason was even more anxious than Liao Ji himself, his eyes widening as he roared.

He had indeed been quite frightened by the commotion caused by the "Legacy" at the very beginning.

However, as everything returned to normal, as if nothing had ever happened, and coupled with the fact that Liao Ji hadn't made any other moves besides rising from the stone coffin, Jason's courage began to return.

Seeing that the grave robbers finally lowered their guns at the scolding of the scarred man who appeared to be their leader, Liao Ji breathed a sigh of relief.

At least the other party was a civilized grave robber.

But who would have known.

"If you damage the 'Legacy,' even ten thousand of you wouldn't be able to pay for it! No shooting! Whoever dares to fire a shot, I'll be the first to execute them!!" The scarred man warned his underlings severely in the most vicious tone.

Liao Ji: "."

It was clear that he really wanted to "protect" him.

However, Jason seemed to have forgotten that there was still one person present who would not follow his orders.

While Jason's attention was focused on his underlings, Irin pursed her lips, and as if having made up her mind, she suddenly began to move.

Then, from Liao Ji's perspective, he saw a petite figure rush out from the group at lightning speed, and within just a few breaths, she had arrived behind him.

Wearing a tattered trench coat, an old hood over her head, and pockets everywhere—this outfit, she must be a scavenger?

Before Liao Ji could analyze any further.

Immediately after.

He experienced, for the first time in his life, the feeling of being hugged from behind by a member of the opposite sex.

The scene wasn't bad.

Of course, Liao Ji felt it would have been even better if the scavenger girl behind him hadn't pulled out a cold, gleaming, sharp dagger and waved it in front of his eyes.

"Don't move! Drop your weapons and kick them over here!" Using Liao Ji as a bargaining chip, Irin gathered her courage and threatened Jason and the others.

Even though she knew this was risky.

It was practically a death trap.

After all, the terrifying Corrupt Calamity that the stone coffin had emitted earlier still lingered in Irin's mind, and this black-haired youth had come out of that coffin; even with her toes, she knew he was definitely not simple.

But Irin had no other options.

This was the only way she might survive at this moment.

Fortunately, the subsequent facts proved that her desperate move was indeed effective.

The black-haired youth did not resist her, which was what made Irin breathe the biggest sigh of relief, and the Kalleva gang, as expected, became anxious.

"You f***ing bitch!!"

From the roar that Jason raised by several decibels, it was clear that his fury had reached its peak.

But the scarred man dared not act rashly, and could only vent his impotent rage by yelling at the female scavenger.

"You're finished! You're going against us, Kalleva! Get your f***ing dirty hands off the 'Legacy' right now!"

"I'm warning you, if you dare to damage our 'Legacy' even a little, not only will you die a miserable death, but your family—that mother of yours who is critically ill at the settlement—will also have absolutely no chance of survival!"

Liao Ji could feel that when the scarred man mentioned her "critically ill mother," the body of the female scavenger pressed against him trembled visibly.

But after that, perhaps feeling that there was no turning back regardless, she decided to burn her bridges.

As a result, under the scarred man's barrage of threats, the female scavenger pressed her body even tighter against him, her "legacy" and only straw to clutch at, while she brandished her dagger repeatedly, demanding the man let her go.

However, judging by the scarred man's intent, that was clearly impossible, yet the man was hindered by the presence of this "legacy" and could do nothing to the female scavenger, so they remained locked in a tense standoff.

So.

Is this the wonderful opening of a second playthrough?

I love it, I really do.

The moment Liao Ji realized he had transmigrated, the first thing he did after crawling out of the coffin was to observe the situation while quickly checking his own body.

The good news was that the game system was still usable.

The bad news was that the second playthrough did not inherit the "protagonist's" data, meaning he was now back to being a level one novice.

The good news was that the "wives" he had raised in the previous playthrough had indeed been carried over.

The bad news was that their portraits in the system were all "grayed out" and in an "unselectable" state.

Liao Ji did not know why this was; such a situation had never occurred in the game, but at least one thing that allowed him to breathe a sigh of relief was his skill bar.

[Holy Healing], [Dragon Blood Combustion], [Calamity Magnetic Pulse], [Annihilation], and finally [Elf Protection].

Much like the mechanics of many cultivation games, in Falling, the player as the "protagonist" possesses no innate skills and cannot level up by "killing monsters"; the only way to increase one's strength is by cultivating Corrupted.

In short, the stronger the cultivated Corrupted, the more experience they can feed back to the player, and once a Corrupted reaches a certain rank, the player can select one of their abilities to use as their own skill.

The five abilities in the skill bar above were the ones Liao Ji had meticulously selected from them during his first playthrough.

While they might not necessarily be the strongest ultimate move from each of them, they were certainly the combination that allowed Liao Ji, the "protagonist," to become a super all-rounder capable of handling any situation.

Even though he failed to inherit the strength of his first playthrough and these skills had all reverted to their initial Lv1, one must understand that there are differences even between Lv1 and Lv1.

As the Lv1 skills of the top-tier six-star characters he had painstakingly cultivated—the highest-ranked "Calamity-grade" Corrupted—using them to deal with this minor situation right now...

...was more than enough.